0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/28/2015
One man in Saturday’s junior middleweight warm-up for the Showtime main event, Jermell Charlo, had never faced anyone as good as his opponent, and didn’t exactly rise to the occasion. The other man, Vanes Martirosyan, has always been inconsistent and was again. They pecked at one another for 10 inconclusive rounds, with the judges siding […]
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Stab Kell Brook in his arm, machete his leg to the point where he says “I could see death,” it doesn’t matter. Nothing is stopping “Special K” these days at welterweight, and Saturday on Showtime, he easily handled a veteran journeyman/fringe contender who had never before been easily handled. In his first fight back since both […]
LAS VEGAS – JANUARY 21: Manny Pacquiao of the Phillippines prays before his fight against Erik Morales of Mexico in the Super Featherweight Championship fight at Thomas & Mack Arena on January 21, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao defeated Morales by a 10th round knockout. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/25/2015
The fourth episode of Manny and Floyd, the podcast all about Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather, is out. Download it, get it on iTunes or your podcasting app, or just listen to it right here: Apart from all the week’s news about drug testing, Floyd’s lumberjack turn and Mexico’s love for the fight, this episode […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/20/2015
When in doubt, we visit our friends over at Reddit’s boxing forum and always find some kind of gem. That’s a chart for Floyd Mayweather fights. Check out the Miguel Cotto result, by the way. Also in this edition of Quick Jabs, beyond the headline — Roc Nation Sports, Al Haymon, Adrien Broner, Martin Scorcese […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/18/2015
NEWS RELEASE The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, an independent, international, noncommercial rankings organization, announces that the winner of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.–Manny Pacquiao fight on May 2 will be crowned the true welterweight champion of the world. The 44-member board, representing 16 countries and five continents, does not acknowledge the various belts passed off as […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/17/2015
Don’t get your hopes up — I can’t offer you a weekend of boxing like the one we had last weekend. The week’s boxing schedule is rather bare, but read on if you need a fix. Alfonso Gomez vs. Yoshihiro Kamegai, Friday, Fox Sports 1/Fox Deportes, Indio Calif. Kamegai (25-2-1, 22 KO) certainly earned another TV […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/14/2015
MONTREAL — Sergey Kovalev, the Russian they call “Krusher” who has rolled through everyone he’s faced since arriving on the world stage, finally got a test Saturday night, from a courageous Jean Pascal, who made a bold stand to defend his home soil. The result was still the same: Kovalev brutalized yet another top fighter at […]
MONTREAL, QC – MARCH 14: Vyacheslav Glazkov (right) connects with the head of Steve Cunningham during the undercard fight prior to the Sergey Kovalev versus Jean Pascal main event at the Bell Centre on March 14, 2015 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)
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MONTREAL — It was the kind of fight that’s hard to score because neither man does much of anything to distinguish himself. Yet in the second HBO fight of Saturday, it was Vyacheslav Glazkov who defeated Steve Cunningham by unanimous decision. It was not a good fight, that’s for sure, a bout where most fans’ reaction was that […]
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MONTREAL — There are some fighters you’ve heard of on the undercard of Sergey Kovalev vs Jean Pascal, and we’re here at the Bell Center to tell you about them. This post will be updated after every fight up to and including the first fight on the HBO broadcast, Isaac Chilemba. Then the Kovalev vs […]
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MONTREAL — “It’s got so many holes in it, I could drive a truck through them all.” “It’s going to blow up.” “Smart people with access to lots of money make stupid decisions.” There is little love lost between Main Events Promotions CEO Kathy Duva and boxing adviser Al Haymon. She sued him last year, when […]
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MONTREAL — Sergey Kovalev vs Jean Pascal Saturday on HBO is the kind of fight where there’s a clear favorite (in this case, Kovalev) and there are a whole slew of people who still think it’s closer to a 50-50 fight. There are good reasons people think this about Kovalev-Pascal. There are good reasons they […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/13/2015
MONTREAL — Culled Friday at the weigh-in for Sergey Kovalev-Jean Pascal Saturday on HBO, get your red hot news tidbits from and about some of your favorite boxing personalities right here! Read on for more on these names: Deontay Wilder, Gennady Golovkin, David Lemieux, Dierry Jean, Bermane Stiverne, Blake Caparello, Curtis Stevens, Roy Jones, Jr., […]
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(Inept photo of Kovalev flipping off a fan by Tim Starks) MONTREAL — At the weigh-in Friday afternoon at the Montreal Casino for Sergey Kovalev Vs. Jean Pascal, both men were in a foul mood. Kovalev, who heard some boos from the partisan Pascal fans rooting for their hometown man, flipped them the bird. Pascal, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/11/2015
A general view during a Premier Boxing Champions bout between Keith Thurman and Robert Guerrero in the MGM Grand Garden Arena on March 7 in Las Vegas. (Alex Trautwig/Getty Images) This won’t be quite a “Quick Jabs” column rounding up all the boxing news, so much as a dive into some stories on the two […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/6/2015
The second leg of boxing’s twin 2015 assault on its own obscurity (following the announcement of Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao) drops this Saturday, when the sport appears in a primetime slot on NBC. If the main event this weekend, Keith Thurman vs Robert Guerrero, isn’t quite boxing “putting its best foot forward,” it’s at […]
